{"id":2441,"date":"2016-03-01T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T09:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=2438&preview_id=2438"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T09:38:20","slug":"another-hindu-leader-shot-dead-this-time-for-opposing-cow-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"Another Hindu Leader Shot Dead, this time for Opposing Cow Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In yet another case of murder of a Hindu leader, Vishva Hindu Parishad\u2019s (VHP) Agra city unit vice-president Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit, was on Thursday shot dead in broad daylight on the way back home after performing his daily prayers at a local temple. He was accosted by five assailants in a busy marketplace near his ancestral house in Mantola, one of whom pumped a bullet from a country-made gun into the back of his head from close range.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s brother named five persons \u2014 Shahrukh, Raja, Dilshad, Imtiyaz and Abid \u2014 as accused in the complaint filed at the Mantola police station. Mahaur\u2019s brother Vinod Kumar, who was with the VHP man when he died, said Shahrukh and his associates attacked both of them without any provocation. \u201cWe were walking home from the temple, minding our own business when these people started hurling abuses and mocked my brother,\u201d alleged Kumar. \u201cEven before we could react, they pounced on us and while Shahrukh shot Arun in the head, his associates started beating me up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police have registered a murder case against main accused Shahrukh and four\u00a0others. As per latest reports Shahrukh, Raja, Imtiaz and Abid have been arrested, while Dilshad is still absconding.<\/p>\n

According to eyewitnesses, there was a brief altercation with the accused before Shahrukh whipped out a gun and sent a bullet crashing through Mahaur\u2019s head.\u00a0Local residents claimed that two days earlier Mahaur had got involved in a fight over the issue of cow slaughter and that Shahrukh had \u201copenly threatened him\u201d.<\/p>\n

24 of the 29 states in Bharat\u00a0have imposed restrictions and penalties of varying degrees on the slaughter of cows and other bovine cattle \u2013 Uttar Pradesh\u00a0\u00a0has one of the strictest laws where the slaughter of cow and its progeny, including bulls and bullocks of all ages, is completely banned.<\/div>\n
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Rampant Murders of Hindu\u00a0Leaders and Activists<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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This incident is just the latest in a spree of murders and attacks on Hindu leaders and activisits. Below is a partial list of cases\u00a0that highlights the severity of the problem, and the ground really that those who are painted as \u2018fascist\u2019 and \u2018intolerant\u2019 are acutally victims of a targeted campaign to silence and eliminate Hindu voices.<\/p>\n

16 Feb 2016: PV Sujith, an RSS and BJP activist, was hacked in his home in Kannur, Kerala. This was just one in a long list of murders of Hindu activists in Kerala.<\/p>\n

12 Feb 2016\u00a0BJP Bihar Vice-President\u00a0Visheshwar Ohja was shot dead in Bhojpur, and earlier that same morning, another BJP leader Kedarnath Singh was shot dead in Chhapra.<\/p>\n

9 Oct 2015: Prashant Poojari was hacked to death in Moodbidri, Karnataka for opposing cow slaughter.<\/p>\n

June 2014: 3 BJP leaders (Vijay Pandit, Omveer Singh Fauji, Rakesh Rastogi) killed in U.P. within a span of 10 days, and several more murderously attacked, including BJP MP from Fatehpur, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.<\/p>\n

July 2014: BJP workers assaulted in Triupra by CPM cadre<\/p>\n

20 July 2013: BJP state general secretary \u2018auditor\u2019 V Ramesh, 54, was hacked to death in Salem, Tamil Nadu. This came after the brutal murder of\u00a0Hindu Munnani functionary Vellaiappan in Vellore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Another Hindu Leader Shot Dead, this time for Opposing Cow Slaughter-HinduPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In yet another case of murder of a Hindu leader, Vishva Hindu Parishad\u2019s (VHP) Agra city unit vice-president Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit, was on Thursday shot dead in broad daylight on the way back home after performing his daily prayers at a local temple. He was accosted by five assailants in a busy marketplace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1308,1309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}